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Parent topics
- Diplomacy (foreign policy): The process of negotiations, among nations, usually by accredited representatives of a government. While the details of the negotiations may not be public information, the fact of the diplomatic negotiations is official and acknowledged [e]
- International law: The formal conduct of interactions between nation-states, both at the national level and on behalf of their citizens; generally accepted as first formalized by Hugo Grotius. [e]
Subtopics
Core organizations
- United Nations Charter: The core "rule book" for jurisdiction of the United Nations [e]
- Secretary-General of the United Nations: Add brief definition or description
- United Nations General Assembly: Add brief definition or description
- United Nations Security Council: One of the principal organs of the United Nations, charged with the maintenance of international peace and security. [e]
- United Nations Security Council resolutions: Over 2000 resolutions have been passed by the United Nations Security Council [e]
Technical agencies
- Food and Agriculture Organization: A policy, technical, and operational agency, under the auspices of the United Nations, which deals with agriculture, fisheries and forestry, as well as humanitarian relief of hunger [e]
- International Atomic Energy Agency: An international organization established in July 1957, which seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy and to inhibit its use for military purposes. [e]
- International Maritime Organization: The United Nations agency responsible for avoiding pollution from ships, and implementing the Safety of Life at Sea convention [e]
- UNESCO: Specialized agency of the UN, created in 1946, to aid peace by promoting international cooperation in education, science, and culture. [e]
- UNSCOM: A United Nations agency, created in April 1991, to inspect Iraq for weapons of mass destruction and long-range guided missiles, and to supervise destruction of weapons and production facilities [e]
- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Within the United Nations organization, the senior staff official responsible for human rights matters [e]
- UN Human Rights Council: A multinational body, supported by but separate from the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, created by the United Nations General Assembly in 2006 [e]
- United Nations Development Programme: UN organization chartered with carrying out worldwide development goals, beginning with cutting world poverty in half by the year 2015 [e]
- World Food Programme: Add brief definition or description
- World Health Organization: United Nations' agency for health, focussing on the control and prevention of diseases, and the support for international health programs. [e]
Initiatives
- Korean War: (1950-1953) war on the Korean peninsula in which about 3 million people died (mostly civilians), begun when North Korea, backed by China, attempted to overrun South Korea, which had been placed under the control of U.S.-led United Nations forces after the surrender of Japan at the end of WW II. [e]
- Quartet on the Middle East: An international group comprising the United Nations, the European Union, the United States of America and Russia, concerned with bringing about an agreed settlement in the conflict over Israel and Palestine. [e]
Diplomatic representation
- Susan Rice: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in the Obama administration; previously senior fellow in foreign policy, Brookings Institution [e]
History
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration: International agency chartered in Atlantic City, New Jersey in November, 1943 and tasked with providing relief to refugees in Europe and China in the aftermath of World War II. [e]
- International Show of Peace Concert: Planned global peace concert featuring musicians, celebrities, and politicians, that was to be held at the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing, China in 2010. [e]
- America at the Crossroads: Add brief definition or description
- Malala Yousafzai [r]: Pashtun student from Pakistan, internationally known for being a children's rights and women's activist. [e]
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- Ambassador: An individual of the highest diplomatic rank, most commonly the representative of the Head of State of his or her government to the Head of State of the country to which the ambassador is accredited. [e]
- Anatoly Marchenko [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Arab-Israeli Conflict [r]: The series of wars and military tension between the State of Israel and Arab states; often includes the Israel-Palestine Conflict, a remnant of the wars between countries [e]
- Arthur Szyk [r]: (1894–) Polish-born American artist. [e]
- Arudou Debito [r]: (有道出人) Japanese human rights activist, teacher and author; born and brought up in the United States, he became a naturalised Japanese citizen in 2000 (born 1965). [e]
- Bahá'í Faith [r]: A monotheistic religion founded in the mid-19th century in Persia, which emphasizes the unity of all humans as one race and prior religions as all being legitimate revelations from God. [e]
- Barack Obama [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Conspiracy theory [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Danielle Pletka [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dean Rusk [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Digital selective calling [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Eleanor Roosevelt [r]: Add brief definition or description
- France [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Franklin D. Roosevelt [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gao Yaojie [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gaza Strip [r]: Add brief definition or description
- George W. Bush Administration [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Georgia (country) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Germany [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Global Maritime Distress and Safety System [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Global justice [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Global warming [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Grand strategy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gulf War [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Harry S. Truman [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Henrik Shipstead [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hostis humani generis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Human rights [r]: Add brief definition or description
- India [r]: Add brief definition or description
- International wheat production statistics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Iraq [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ireland (state) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Italy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jesse Helms [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John F. Kennedy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Kosovo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- History of Laos [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Law [r]: Add brief definition or description
- League of Nations [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Led Zeppelin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Netherlands [r]: Add brief definition or description
- New York, New York [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nobel Prize [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nongovernmental organization [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nonprofit Terminology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Paul A. Volcker [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Paul K. Van Riper [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Peace operations [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Politics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pollinator decline [r]: Add brief definition or description
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- Space law [r]: Add brief definition or description
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- State [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Strait of Malacca [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sustainable development [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Swarming (military) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Terrorism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- The Pentagon's New Map [r]: Add brief definition or description
- The Prem Rawat Foundation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tony Blair [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Transgenic plant [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Vessel monitoring system [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Lyon Mackenzie King [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Wilsonianism [r]: Add brief definition or description